Kaleidoscopic container.



L. H. & H. R. FREUND.

KALEIDOSGOPIG CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27,1913.

1,109,123. Patented Sept. 1,1914.

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KALEIDOS'GOPIG CONTAINER.

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LEONHART H. FBIEUND AND HANS R. FREUND, 01 NEW YORK, N. Y.

KALEIDOSCOPIC- CONTAINER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, LEONHART H.

FREUND, a subject of the Emperor of Austria.

Hungary, and a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, and HANS R. FREUND, a subject of the Emperor of AustriaIIungary, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kaleidoscopic Containers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to containers preferably for edible substances, such as diaphanous candies and jujubes, and has for its object means whereby said container may be used as the object box of a kaleidoscope.

The invention consists of the features set forth in the claims, several preferred forms of which are described in the specification and shown in the accom anying drawings.

In the said drawings: %igure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a container constructed according to our invention, with the reflecting tube in position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the container before the temporary cover has been removed and the reflecting tube inserted. Fig. 3 is a view like Fig. 2 and shows the method of removing the temporary cover. Fig. 4 is an exterior view or a view in elevation of the container and reflecting tube. Fig. 5 is a view like Fig. 1 showing a modified form of the invention. Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail view of part of the container and tube, partly in section, showing a second modification.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

. 1 is a container consisting of the bottom part 2 having the translucent portion 3, and the top part 4: having the opening 5.

6 indicates edible or other particle placed within the container.

The parts 2 and4 are secured permanently together by means of the band or ring 7 and suitable adhesive is desired, the object being to prevent the spilling of the contents when the container is subsequently used as an object box.

The opening 5 is here shown as being closed by means of the closure 8 which consists of a sheet of relatively rigid material 9 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 27, 1913.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914. Serial No. 770,242.

and a sheet of relatively flexible material 10. These two sheets are suitably secured to- .gether by means of one or more eyelets 11,

the flexible material being inside the container and the rigid material being outside the container. The closure 8 is preferably secured'in position to cover the opening before the parts 2 and 4 are assembled.

12 indicates a reflecting tube having angularly disposed reflecting surfaces 13. At the lower end this tube is provided with a transparent closure 14 held in position by means of the ring 15. On the outside of the tube is a stop ring 16.

Now by grasping the sheet 9, the closure 8 can be removed, by pulling the flexible sheet 10 out through the opening 5. The tube 12 can now be detachably secured to the container, which thus constitutes an object box.

It will be noted that the diameter of the tube 12 is less than that of the container. In this way a much greater variety of designs will be produced than if the object box were of the same diameter as the reflecting tube.

In Fig. 5 the closure 14 is shown as a piece of flexible transparent material and is held in position by springing the same into the mouth of the tube as shown.

In Fig. 7 the top 4 is provided with an upstanding eircumferential rib 17 surrounding the opening 5.

What is claimed, is:

1. A container provided with a closed translucent bottom and a closed top having an opening, a reflecting tube of a relatively smaller diameter than that of the container, adapted to be detachably secured to the container aforesaid in line with the opening in the closed top.

2. A container provided with a closed translucent bottom and a closed top having an opening, a reflecting tube adapted to be detachably secured to the container in line with the opening in the top thereof, and a transparent closure carried by the tube in that end which is adapted to be secured to the container.

3. A container provided with a closed translucent bottom and a closed top having an opening, a removable cover for said opening, a reflecting tube adapted to be substituted for the removable cover and to be detachably secured to the said container in line with the opening aforesaid, whereby the which is adapted to be secured to the concontainer will constitute an object box for tainer, whereby the container will constitute the reflecting tube. i an object box for thereflectingtube.

4. A container provided with a closed Signed at New York in the county of New 15 5 translucent bottom and a closed top having York and gtate of NewYork, this 28 day of an opening, a removable cover for said open- March, A. .D. 1913. ing, a reflecting tube adapted to be 'substi- *LEONHART H. FREUND.

tuted for the removable cover and to be de- HANS R. FREUND.

tachably secured to the said container in line Vitnesses: 10 with the opening aforesaid, and a transpar- A. M. NIQ'IIQEL,

ent closure carried by the tube in that end LAWRENCE- DEMPSEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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